Here’s a good Rippetoe quote about squats from his book Starting Strength:

“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning as the correctly performed full squat.”

I would love to be the best at the Snatch. (noooo guys, get your head out of the gutters)…the Snatch is a series of very technical movements, that must come together under a tremendous amount of speed…BADASS!

I would choose to be the best at the POWER CLEAN. I think this is a fundamental movement and addresses a weakness of mine- shrugging. Second would be the DEADLIFT so that I could have glutes like Coach Nancy. Now that would be badass!